A call to defend priestly celibacy

Published: 12 February 2007

Guided only by the secular press over the last 30 years, many young men
could have come to believe that priests in general are unhappy in their
vocation and resentful of their celibacy. We priests need to show by
word and example that we are in fact happy in our vocation to the
priesthood. The so-called crisis of priestly celibacy is really a
crisis of all forms of lifelong intimate commitment. The cultural
forces attacking celibacy are the same ones undermining and devaluing
marriage - Fr Pat Stratford